Our History

The Beatitudes Community is one of the "New Communities" born of the Catholic Church after Vatican II and originating in the Charismatic Renewal. Under the ecclesial authority of the Archbishop of Albi (France)since May 1975, it was recognized by Rome as an International Association of the Faithful of Pontifical Right on December 8, 2002. On December 3, 2008, The Pontifical Council for the Laity asked the Community to shift to the canonical form of a New Spiritual Family of Consecrated Life [link:] under the pontifical authority of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life.

In that regard,on June 29, 2011, Rome officially proclaimed the Community of the Beatitudes a "Public Association of the Faithful" (under the ecclesial authority of the Archbishop of Toulouse (France)), and renewed it's trust in the Charism of our Community.

This future canonical form corresponds better to the international reality of the Beatitudes Community now: almost 100 priests, 40 seminarians, 350 consecrated sisters, and hundreds of Lay members, spread in 70 houses, in 30 countries, and all continents. Committed to the New Evangelization (John Paul II), its spirituality is Eucharistic and Marian, inspired by the Carmelite tradition and living out the spirit of the Beatitudes (Matt: 5). It gathers together the faithful of allstates of life (families, single people, priests and consecrated brothers and sisters), who share in common a vocation of prayer and fraternal communion, combining a marked contemplative dimension (adoration of the Blessed Sacrament) with numerous apostolic and missionary activities.

At the request of bishops in more than 60 dioceses, the Community is at the service of the Catholic Church in numerous apostolic and missionary activities [link official website of the Community:]

• Parishes (Denver; Lima, Peru; Hungary; Cordes, France; Dolany, Czech Republic...)
• Marian sanctuaries (Ivory Coast; Lourdes; Medjugorje; Valcluse, France...)
• Retreat houses (Nouan, France; Libreville, Gabon; Mexico;
  Roccantica, Italy; Venthone, Switzerland...)
• Hospital and health care (Kabinda, Zaire; Nothgottes, Germany...)
• Taking care of the poor (Vaumoise, France; Bamako, Mali...)
• Contemplative houses (Beaune, France; Jerusalem, Israel...)
• Youth ministry (Murinais, France; Venthone, Switzerland; Sovere, Italy...)
• Spreading the Gospel through media and communications
  (Chalonnes, France; Pont Saint-Esprit, France; Nouan, France...)
• Seminaries (Issia, Ivory Coast; Blagnac, France; Rome, Italy...)
• Christian art and iconography (Mortain, France...)
• Pilgrimages (Emmaus, Israel; Lisieux, France; Medjugorje, Lourdes...)